Exactly my point. She was a credible opposition candidate to the commie Mayor and is a seasoned elected official from NYC, not some poor "sacrificial lamb" the NY GOP plucked out of nowhere and just placed on the ballot so they could have somebody in that slot.
What's more, the guy who ran against DeBlasio the FIRST time, although he is worthless RINO scum, was nevertheless chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also a former deputy mayor of New York City, making him a well known official to NY voters. Being Chairman of the MTA is often a stepping stone to a citywide elected post. He was hardly some random token name just thrown on the ballot.
The NYC GOP runs actual candidates AND wins from time to time, unlike the Chicago GOP.
Well, we don’t have a Staten Island. Staten Island is basically a GOP suburb in NJ that just happens to be part of NYC for some reason. They need to secede with the fury of a 100000 John C. Calhouns.
City Council #s in NY are pretty pathetic now aren’t they?
I figure Rudy will be the last real GOP Mayor (Dafuq was the last one before him? Not RINOs Linseed and LaGuardia) ever and I don’t even know about a Bloomberg at this point. That DeBlasio won a 2nd landslide.....
I doubt he’s the nominee again to give us (or “us”) a chance.
But yeah there WILL be a real GOP nominee at least. We’ve no GOP here in Chi since the non-partisan elections and our last one was Ray Wardingley in 1995 (weren’t you involved with one of his Congressional bids?) who got a mere 2.77% with most Republicans voting for Daley against Indie Candidate Roland Burris. Similar story in 1991, Daley vs. Harold Washington Party. AND again 1989 (special) when Ed Vrdolyak was our nominee.
In 87 of course Vrdolyak ran under the banner of Illinois Solidarity (Adali Stevenson vehicle after a LaRousie won the primary for LT Governor in 1986 and he refused to share a ticket with him) and got most of the GOP vote.
So yeah Bernie Epton in 83 was our last nominee to crack 5% AND our last nominee to crack 45%. How about that bit of trivia.
The last GOP nominee in a “normal” election where most the White dem vote wasn’t going to us and most our vote wasn’t going to Daley or Vrdolyak was 1977 where our dude (a banker and former Transit board member so a passable 2nd tierish candidate) got 16%.
For reference Trump got 12% in Chicago.